Chinese to Bring Titanic to Life with Replica of Famous Sunken Ship | the Chronicle

the Titanic party of Southampton, Inglaterra, towards New York, United States. However, it never reached its destination as it was wrecked after hitting an iceberg. More than a century after its sinking, they are working on an exact replica of the ship in the town of Suining, China.

It is a replica that will be part of a theme park that you will be more than a thousand kilometers from the sea. new titanic will take into account the details to the maximum to be a faithful cap of the ship. For this, experts and historians will approve the final result.

A message from a passenger on the Titanic

Although more than 100 years have passed since her sinking, in recent weeks the Titanic made headlines for the bizarre message left by a 13-year-old passenger. The girl threw a bottle with a letter into the sea with a message for her family the day before the sinking.

But this time the Titanic it has become a trend again because in China Is that the case build a life-size replica of the ship to inaugurate a next theme park.

In the Chinese city of Suining next to the river, work is developed which will culminate with the creation of a large replica of Titanic.

The construction of the ship began six years ago and has the participation of 100 workers. The duration of the work in progress is longer than that of the Titanic original. To replicate the ship, more than 23 thousand tons of steel was used, which reached 1 billion yuan, which is equivalent to 155.3 million dollars.

The date of opening of the theme park in the town of Suining It is scheduled for the end of 2021, there is no exact date yet. The replica pretends to be the same, there is precision in every detail, from the doorknobs to the luxurious bedrooms, AFP reported.

Project investor Su Shaojun told AFP he was “motivated” finance “double in bold” 260 meters long for “keep alive the memories of Titanic“. He also predicted that the ship “to be here in 100 or 200 years.”

Su assured that during the inauguration ceremony of the theme park Would you “invite Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) ya rose (Kate Winslet)“, the main characters of the film, and its director James Cameron.

The film Titanic, that created in 1997, it had as protagonists DiCaprio already Winslet under the direction of Cameron. There, they tell the love story that young people live Jack Dawson Yes Rose DeWitt Bukater aboard the liner RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage from Southampton towards New York.

The film is based on real events because the ship never reached its destination, I know sank in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 after hitting an iceberg the night before. This left a toll of 1,496 dead out of the 2,208 who traveled.